In partnership with Viasat and CGI, Skyrora – the Scottish space launch company – has completed a successful ground test of Viasat’s InRange, a space-based launch vehicle telemetry relay system. InRange is designed to provide continuous transmission of telemetry data, from launch to payload deployment. This includes transmission of data beyond the horizon line without relying on ground stations. Basically, ...
Solutions for every user and budget UNI-T is a recognised provider of affordable lab equipment. However, its assortment is also distinguished by a wide diversity and includes solutions designed for professional applications. See below for an overview of the UNI-T product choice, including a strictly specified product range, i.e. function/arbitrary generators. These are some of the most important laboratory instruments ...
The Higgs Centre for Innovation, in Edinburgh, is relaunching its Space Testing Facility after upgrading the clean rooms and advanced testing equipment. Funding of £400,000 from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) enabled the change. The aim is to make the centre more accessible to a wider range of space companies and technology SMEs. Facilities The facilities – to ...
Nvidia has announced results for its forthcoming Blackwell GPU in the latest round of MLPerf industry benchmarks, Inference v4.1. “The Blackwell platform revealed up to 4x more performance than the Hopper architecture on MLPerf’s biggest LLM [large language model] workload, Llama 2 70B, thanks to its use of a second-generation transformer engine and FP4 tensor cores,” according to the company. ...
Quadsat is providing a simplified method of testing for the antenna registration process, the Danish company has announced. This is to test user terminals, including fixed, comms-on-the-move (COTM) and phased array, as well as earth stations across the network. The drone-based testing company says it is working with major satellite operators. This includes a partnership with GovSat to allow all ...
Challenges faced by automotive chip designers include longer than average expected lifespans and rigorous functional safety standards, explains Paul Martin. The expected lifetime for the vast majority of chips is typically a few years, but chips for automotive use have an expected lifespan of 10 to 15 years, to match the lifespan of the average car, and a supply lifetime ...
Astrobotic, a lunar logistics company, has unveiled its Lunar Surface Proving Ground (LSPG) – a constructed moonscape for testing- at its facility in Mojave, California. Measuring 100mx100m, the “high-fidelity 3D test field” mimics the topography and optical properties of the Moon’s surface, said the company. The site will be used for testing spacecraft and rover sensors, for example lunar landing ...
The JTAG port was introduced more than 30 years ago, but has changed as the industry has evolved, says James Stanbridge. For some engineers the term JTAG means a device programming port. For others it exists to plug in a microprocessor emulator or debugger. Originally it was devised for neither of these applications. The acronym JTAG stands for the Joint ...
To meet low-power and high-performance requirements, system on chip (SoC) designs are equipped with several asynchronous and soft reset signals. These reset signals help to safeguard software and hardware functional safety as they can be asserted to speedily recover the system onboard to an initial state and clear any pending errors or events. By definition, a reset domain crossing (RDC) ...
NI has set out its stall for AI in the test industry. Following the announcement of LabView AI assistant at the end of last year (currently in beta testing), CTO of technology and innovation, Kevin Shultz spoke to Electronics Weekly about what will be the role of AI in test. He explained that the increasing complexity of products being tested ...
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